# gambit-scheme mit Homebrew, dnf, apt installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für gambit-scheme in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:gambit-scheme
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gambit-scheme
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install six
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: six from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install python-six-doc
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: python-six-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:gambit-scheme
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 4.9.7
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Implementation of the Scheme Language
- **Homepage:** <https://gambitscheme.org/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/gambit/gambit>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-22T14:03:24-07:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gambdoc (Alias)
- gambuild-C (Alias)
- gambuild-arm (Alias)
- gambuild-java (Alias)
- gambuild-js (Alias)
- gambuild-php (Alias)
- gambuild-python (Alias)
- gambuild-riscv-32 (Alias)
- gambuild-riscv-64 (Alias)
- gambuild-ruby (Alias)
- gambuild-x86 (Alias)
- gambuild-x86-64 (Alias)
- gambvcs (Alias)
- gsc-script (Alias)
- gsi (Alias)
- gsi-script (Alias)
- scheme-ieee-1178-1990 (Alias)
- scheme-r4rs (Alias)
- scheme-r5rs (Alias)
- scheme-srfi-0 (Alias)
- six (Alias)
- six-script (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 4.9.7
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Gambit Scheme is a long-running implementation of Scheme that combines an interactive interpreter, gsi, with a compiler, gsc, able to translate Scheme programs to portable C and JavaScript.

### Projektgeschichte

The official site describes Gambit as first released in 1988 and as integrating decades of programming language research. Its manual documents conformance to the R4RS, R5RS, R7RS, and IEEE Scheme standards, with most of the implementation written in Scheme and compiled to portable C.

Gambit's release archive spans the 1990s through the 2020s, including 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, and the long-running 4.x series. The project moved public development to GitHub, where the README directs users to build gsi and gsc from source and points to the official website for releases and documentation.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Gambit has been adopted most visibly in the Scheme and programming-language-research communities, where it is valued for performance, portability, threads, continuations, and its use as a platform for compiler research. The project maintains a mailing list, Gitter chat, GitHub issues, and a GitHub wiki for users and contributors.

The input package facts show Gambit Scheme packaged by Homebrew, while the executable list reflects its role as both an installed language runtime and a compiler toolchain, with gsi/gsc scripts and target-specific build helpers.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users run gsi for interactive development and scripting, and gsc to compile Scheme programs. The manual documents installation layouts, runtime options, debugging, modules, threads, foreign interfaces, and generated-code portability through C and JavaScript targets.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Gambit is significant to package and language-runtime enthusiasts because it is both an old Scheme implementation and a portable compiler toolchain. It demonstrates the classic Lisp-family distribution problem: a runtime, compiler, generated C code, headers, libraries, and multiple installed versions that packages must place coherently on Unix, macOS, and Windows.

### Zeitleiste

- 1988: First public release, according to the official homepage.
- 1990s: 1.x, 2.x, and 3.0 releases listed in the official release archive.
- 2000s: Gambit 4.x became the main release line.
- 2012: GitHub repository created.
- 2025: Manual generated for Gambit v4.9.7.
- 2026: Official homepage still describes active use and development.

### Related projects

- Scheme standards R4RS, R5RS, R7RS, and IEEE Scheme define much of the language surface Gambit implements.
- SRFI libraries are documented in the project README as part of the provided ecosystem.
- Termite Scheme and Gambit JavaScript/Python interop research appear in the official research record.

### Quellen

- <https://gambitscheme.org/>
- <https://gambitscheme.org/4.9.7/manual/>
- <https://gambitscheme.org/community/>
- <https://gambitscheme.org/dev/>
- <https://gambitscheme.org/releases/>
- <https://gambitscheme.org/research/>
- <https://github.com/gambit/gambit>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - python-six-doc - 1.17.0-1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: python-six-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Python 2 and 3 compatibility library (documentation) | https://github.com/benjaminp/six
- Debian apt - python3-six - 1.17.0-1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: python3-six from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Python 2 and 3 compatibility library | https://github.com/benjaminp/six
- Ubuntu apt - python-six-doc - 1.16.0-4: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python-six-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Python 2 and 3 compatibility library (documentation) | https://github.com/benjaminp/six
- Ubuntu apt - python3-six - 1.16.0-4: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-six from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Python 2 and 3 compatibility library | https://github.com/benjaminp/six
- dnf - six - 0.5.3-47.fc43: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: six from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Hex playing program | http://six.retes.hu/


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gambit-scheme.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/gambit-scheme.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
